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Chap. 18.
The death of Baldwine the second.
KIng Baldwine a little before his death renounced the world, and took on him a religious habit. This was the fashion of many Princes in that age, though they did it for di∣vers ends. Some thought to make amends for their disorder∣ed lives by entring into some holy order at their deaths: O∣thers having surfeited of the worlds vanity, fasted from it when they could eat no more because of the impotency of their bo∣dies: Others being crossed by the world by some misfortune, sought to crosse the world again in renouncing of it. These like furious gamesters threw up their cards, not out of dislike of ga∣ming but of their game; and they were rather discontented to live then contented to dye. But we must believe that Baldwine did it out of true devotion, to ripen himself for heaven, because he was piously affected from his youth; so that all his life was religiously tuned, though it made the sweetest musick in the close. He died not long after, on the 22 of August, in the 13 year of his reign; and was buried with his predecessours in the temple of the Sepulchre. By Morphe a Grecian Lady his wife, he had four daughters: whereof Millesent was the eldest; the second Alice, married to young Boemund Prince of Anti∣och; the third Hodiern, wife to Reimund Prince of Tripoli; and Mete the youngest, Abbesse of Bethanie.